Toilet-paper holder.



No. 803,624. PATENTED NOV. 7, 1905. V

G. E. POPE.

TOILET PAPER HOLDER. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA PB. 25, 1904.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 7, 1905.

Application filed April 25, 1904. Serial 'No. 204,763.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES E. Porn, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, and a resident of South Hadley, in the county of Hampshire andState of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful 1mprovements in Toilet-Paper Holders, of which the following is a full.clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to improvements in a holder for toilet-paper,folded tissue-paper napkins, or the like and to a stack or pile ofpeculiarly-folded individual thin paper sheets havingdimensions thereofpredetermined and to accord with the holder.

A principal object of the invention is to provide a holder of such formas to accommodate the pile of peculiarly-folded sheets therein in suchmanner that a leaf or layer of each sheet will be accessible to begrasped for the withdrawal of the bottom folded sheet, leaving the nextsheet equally in readiness to be conveniently grasped and withdrawn; anda further object is to so form and construct the holder in respect offeatures thereof in detail as to improve its efficiency, and incontemplation of the availability of the holder whereby it will receiveand accommodate a pile of individual sheets each folded on itself with aWide and relatively narrow leaf, the plurality of so-folded sheets beingsuperimposed with the narrower leaf of each under the wider one, theholder consists of a casing having an opening at the bottom and ledgesor supports at the opposite sides of said opening and so arranged thatthe narrower leaf is non-supported at its free edge,-but is accessibleto the grasp at such opening; and the invention consists in other andfurther features for advantage and utility hereinafter pointed out, andset forth in the claims.

The improved holder and the individualized sheets adapted thereto areillustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is aperspective view. Fig. 2 is a central vertical section as taken fromfront to rear through the holder. Fig. 3 is a perspective view showingan approved manner of folding the toilet-paper sheet or napkins.

Similar characters of reference indicate the same or similar parts inall of the views.

In the drawings, A represents the holder or casing, the same, as shown,being quadrilateral substantialy as to all of its sides, it beingrectangular as to its formation as viewed in plan and is preferablyrhombic, as seen in side elevation, and the ends of the casing arerepresented by letter a. The back, which is of the full height, is shownat I). while the front (Z extends from the bottom front edge upwardlyonly partially as high as the back and ends, leaving the casing open atits top and open also for the greater portion of the height at itsfront.

The bottom of the casing is constituted by the ledges or supports f andg, separated from each other by the intermediate opening it, whichextends from end to end, both said ledges being arranged in a commonplane and which, as shown, is one having an inclination rearwardly anddownwardly, and between the rear edge of the ledge g and the back 6 is anarrow slit or opening t', so that dirt or dust which may come into thecasing onto the ledge g, which is shown as considerably wider than theledge f, may become freed or discharged through such opening 11.

w represents the folded sheets piled or stacked within the holder, suchsheets having, by reason of being folded on a line parallel with thelength of the holder, and which line is more or less removed from themiddle of the sheet, each a wide fold or leaf 10 and a narrower fold orleaf 12. The so-folded sheetsin superimposed relations and with thenarrower leaves thereof below the wider leaves placed in the holderacquire supports, as represented particularly in Fig. 2, on theledgesfand g at the front and to the rear of the opening it; but thefront'ledge f, being more narrow than the difference between the widthsof the leaves 10 and 12, is at no time overlaid by and does not supportthe free marginal portion of the said narrower leaf 12, which willnaturally sag more or less below the opening it and downwardly away fromthe upper leaf portion of the same sheet to be readily grasped by thehand, a forwardly-drawing motion resulting in an easy removal of thelowermost sheet, leaving the one next thereabove then in readiness to besimilarly withdrawn.

By making the bottom portion of the easing rearwardly and downwardlyinclined, as represented, the free edge of the narrower leaf or fold ofthe bottom sheet is more readily. perceived and grasped, and the pile offolded sheets remaining in the casing are better maintained in theirproper dispositions to enable or permit of the successive extraction ofwhat is each time the bottom sheet.

The pile of sheets folded substantially as set forth are the morereadily introduced into the holder and without disturbing their properonly at the top but in a large extent at thefront of the casing;

The most practical and desirable description of cover or closure B whichIhave been able to devise to shut the casing at its open top and front,as shown, consists of an angularly-bent sheet-metal plate, comprisingthe front portion 13 and top portion 14 and having the ends thereofflanged or angularly turned, as represented at 15, to overlap the topand front marginal portions of the casing ends a externally of thelatter, the ear-lug 16 also overlapping on the outer sides of the easingends near the lower front corners thereof, affording means of connectionthrough the pivots 17, whereby the angular cover may be swung forwardlyand downwardly to open the casing to permit the introduction of the pileof folded sheets therewithin.

While the sheets essentially have each a wide fold or leaf 10 and asomewhat narrower one 12 for the purposes of enabling the successivewithdrawals by grasping the narrower fold of the lowermost sheet, eachfold 10 and 12 may comprise a plurality of subleaves, as represented inFig. 3, in which a comparatively large sheet or napkin is understood asfolded centrally across its middle on the line 11, again folded at rightangles thereto across the middle and on the line 20, and the whole thenfolded on the line 22 to provide the compound folds 10 and 12 of unequalwidths, as required. I

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is

1. A holder for toilet-paper consisting of a casing of rhombic formhaving its bottom inclined and having an opening therethrough, withledges or rests for the toilet-paper at op posite sides of said opening.

2. A toilet-paper holder consisting of a casing provided with aninclined bottom having 'a transverse opening dividing said bottom intoseparated ledges or supports which lie in the same inclined plane.

3. The combination with a package composed of a series of superposedsheets, each sheet having folds of unequal length, said sheets beingarranged with the narrower folds undermost, of a casing for said packagehaving a slot coinciding with the transverse marginal free edge of saidnarrower fold, and retaining-ledges on the opposite sides of the slot,said ledges lying in the same inclined plane and being parallel withsaid transverse free edge of said narrower fold.

4;. The combination with a package of sheets folded into wide andrelatively narrow sections, said sheets being superposed with theirnarrow sections undermost, of a casing for said sheets having a wall tobe secured in a vertical position and a bottom inclined upwardly fromsaid wall and having a transverse'slot, the sheets being arranged in thecasing with the marginal edges of the narrow sections in registrationwith the slot and directed toward the highest point of the inclinedbottom, so that said marginal edge is permitted to drop through theslot.

5. A toilet-paper holder consisting of a casing comprising a verticalback, opposite end walls. a bottom having an opening therein and ledgesor toilet-paper supports at opposite sides of such opening, and having afront wall of less height than the back and end walls; and an angularcover for the casing, hinged at a front lower portion thereof andadapted to close the open-formed front and top of the casing.

6. A toilet-paper holder consisting of a casing comprising a verticalback, opposite end walls, a bottom having an opening therein and ledgesor toilet-paper supports at opposite sides of such opening, and having afront wall of less height than the back and end walls; and an angularcover for the casing having extension ear-lugs at opposite end portionsthereof to engage the casing ends at the front lower portions thereof,and adapted to close the front and top of the casing.

7 A toilet-paper holder consisting of a oasing comprising a verticalback, opposite end walls, a bottom having an opening therein and ledgesor toilet-paper supports at opposite sides of such opening, andhavingafront wall of less height than the back and end walls; and anangular cover for the casing, hinged at a front lower portion thereof toswing about a horizontal axis, and adapted to close the front and top ofthe casing, and having flanges to overlap at the front and top marginalportions of the casing ends.

8. A toilet-paper holder consisting of arectangular casing havingitsbottom downwardly and rearwardly inclined, having an opening throughsaid bottom with ledges or toilet-paper supports at the front and rearof said opening, and having an opening between the rear edge of the rearledge and the back of the casing, for the purposes set forth.

Signed by me at Springfield, Massachusetts, in presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

CHARLES E.P()PE.

Witnesses:

WM. S. BELLoWs, A. V. LEAHY.

